OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 48888

alexandrine

/ˌælɪkˈsændriːn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
alejandrino
A line of poetic meter having twelve syllables, usually divided into two or three equal parts.
The dominant metre in Les Fleurs du Mal is the twelve-syllable alexandrine, the defining metre of French versification, with the eight-syllable line a distant runner-up and the ten…
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